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% of people aged 15 - 30 who say they can read & write in at least one foreign language: 🇬🇧32% 🇭🇺71% 🇮🇪75% 🇧🇪77% 🇫🇷79% 🇵🇹81% 🇷🇴83% 🇪🇸85% 🇧🇬87% 🇨🇿88% 🇬🇷89% 🇮🇹90% 🇱🇹90% 🇵🇱90% 🇩🇪91% 🇸🇰91% 🇨🇾92% 🇫🇮92% 🇦🇹93% 🇸🇮94% 🇪🇪95% 🇭🇷95% 🇱🇻96% 🇱🇺95% 🇸🇪97% 🇳🇱97% 🇲🇹98% 🇩🇰99% 🔎Eurobarometer 2018

— Erasmus+ (@EUErasmusPlus) June 29, 2019

ayeforscotland

The UK is a fucking embarrassment.

oh-glasgow

The old joke went;

What do you call someone who can speak three languages?

Trilingual.

What do you call someone who can speak two languages?

Bilingual.

What do you call someone who can speak one language?

British.

dearemma

‘Very well. Only you must pay me for them!’ ‘How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?’ she whispered, after some time of delicious silence.

slaters-pins

same energy (literally)

unclemurphy

So, thank you 🏳️‍🌈

valtsv

questionablemotivations

There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.

It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic

It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic

Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic

Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.

Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.

house-of-crows

THANK YOUUUUUUU~

kinka-juice

A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.

laurdlannister-kingslayer

aw dangit

chrisintegration-deactivated202

Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.

noisypitta

Using wool isnt even harming sheep

chris-hansen-the-pedoslayer-blog

Sheep need to be sheered or else it will cause serious problems. It’s a mutual relationship, we help sheep get rid of the pesky wool and it gives us a very useful material.

calis-discourse

This has been a Burning Hot Take™

frighthouseofalighthouse

Also chickens will lay eggs no matter what!! That’s literally what chickens do!!! You are not eating “chick embryos”!!! If you’re worried about supporting the corporate mass farming industry, buy from a local free-range chicken owner! Almost anywhere has farmer’s markets!

anthropohedron

This is the part where we talk about how the demand for agave nectar as an alternative to honey is destroying the habitat of the endangered long-nosed bat, which lives on agave.

thehistoricalgods

Bees literally make an excess of honey, too much for them to handle. Beekeepers are helping them by taking honey. BEE MOVIE WAS LITERALLY ABOUT THIS HOLY SHIT

i-hate-chick-fil-a

It reminds me of the hunger games

deputy-shayy

It should.

floweramon

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you’re laughing at people who are hurting it’s not satire, it’s bullying.”

— Terry Pratchett (via adobsonartworks)

ladyoflate

not voting isn’t refusing to play the game. You’re in this country, you’re subject to the game whether you like it or not. The only way not to play is to leave, and the vast majority of us don’t have that option.

Not voting is playing the game but saying ‘pass’ every time your turn comes up and then wondering why you lost.

fivemanwaltz

Making young people not vote is actually a tactic used in politics to keep the satus quo. The young vote is always the one for change, so dissuading them from voting at all is actually a political tactic used by the people in charge to keep themselves there. Voting is rebellion.